Brainstorm Poem Analysis

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An Analysis of “Brainstorm” “Brainstorm,” a term used in the art of writing, immediately leads readers into thinking about the process of sudden and quick idea development. In seeing the title as a technique, a literal interpretation of the poem might form, deviating readers away from the true essence it bears. Although the house, as depicted through personification and metaphors, is the principal entity that is physically affected by the rainstorm, it is the homeowner himself that ends up being tremendously altered by the “green uprising and mob rule” (line 35)—the plethora of components that make up and control the world. The hidden link between man and nature is revealed to the reader once the climax of the poem is reached, at the same time the persona is exposed to externalities (crows). By using sound color, devices of sound, and that of sense, the poet is able to successfully show the inseparability of the inner nature of man and the immense outer natural world in this narrative lyric through a dreamlike tone. The suggestion of natural sounds produced by the weather, house, and birds, combine to show the distinction between internal and external forces in the first half of the poem. The house would shake because of a “rising wind” (line 1) which “rattled window and door” (line 2), the strong wind would make the screen “bang” (line 3), the door “slam” (line 3), and support beams to “groan” (line 3), the timber with sap went against the “baulk” (line 8) and “spike” (line 8) that secured the house, and “crows” (line 10) that “walk along” (line 11) and “scratched” (line 13) the roof all contributed, whether as onomatopoeias or as harsh sounds, to the color of the poem that moreover functioned as an exterior sphere. The consonance in “Bent to his book” (line 9) while the persona was being stoical to the current ruckus caused by the outside, and the exclusion of

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